Manipulation

Ch 32 Evidence in ink

A knock on the door announced someone at our door, dragging us from home work. We glanced at each other before i stood up and made my way over to the door. Only to find the hallway empty. Well, almost empty. A small box lay in front of our door. "Who's there?" Angel calls from her bed.

"No one" I say kicking the door closed and wounder over to Angels bed, running my fingers over the blue box. I could feel the gold engravings that twisted over the box in complicated designs. On the top was a small piece of paper. That gave me a bed idea. I sat on the bed next to Angel who was looking at me confused.

Angel snatched the note and straitened up and took a deep breath before reading it out loud. "Dear girls...you did a good job with what i asked. Now, the second part of the game begins, in the box you will find two dice. To play the game you must each roll a dice, add the numbers then someone must walk into the hallway and shout the number. Depending on the fate of rolling the dice you will find something will happen. Don't try anything, i'm watching. Good luck -Stalker"

Angel and i shared a look. "This guys fucked up" Angel mutters. We look down at the box for a minute before opening it. Just like the note had said, inside we found 2 dice. But something the note didn't say was also laying there. Something haunting lay under the dice. Carefully i picked one of the pictures up and suddenly felt sick to my stomach. I stared at it for a while then looked at Angel who was watching me. She grabbed the thing from my hand before i could protest, turning the photo over to see what was inked onto the top. It was a picture of Angel and Eric. They were on the oval laughing as they walked. They weren't looking at the person taking the picture.

I picked up another photo, unable to stop my curiosity. This one was of Bianca, walking on a path towards her dorms, her head dipped forward, dark hair falling over her shoulders.

I shivered thinking about my friends being stalked, never knowing they were being followed. I picked up another. It was of Emily talking to Bianca in the cafeteria. The next was of Angel and Bianca. Another was Emily and some guy. My fingers grabbed Anthe but this one, instead of throwing glancing at it before throwing it down i stopped. It was of me and Lucas standing face to face, him brushing the hair from my face. It was black and white and caught every emotion. It was scary to think someone took this without us noticing. But it was still beautiful. I placed the photo aside and looked at Angel who was looking at me. I grabbed another, from about a week ago, when i was walking beside the forest. From the angel the photo was taken they were in the forest. And i couldn't look at any of the other photo's which littered the box.

"What do you think will happen?" She asks calmly.

"No idea" I grabbed on of the dice and she grabbed the other. We watched each other for a while before we both dropped the dice. They rolled and skipped over the bed then came to a halt. 2 and 5. "7" i say looking at Angel who nodded and walked towards the door. A bad feeling rose inside of me as she walked into the hallway and called the number. She paused to look around before retreating back inside.

We sat on the bed in silents. my stomach felt funny and i had the urge to crawl in bed and die. But i couldn't. My body seemed to be buzzing with energy. "I'm going for a run" i say standing up. Angel nodded and started looking though the photos again, her eyes painting all the worry that she was feeling.

The sky was becoming lighter and the breeze was almost gone. A half moon was high in the sky, still see-able in the early mornings orange and pink sky. I padded over to the path, staying away from the forest and went down to the oval. I needed to run. The forest paths suddenly seemed too far away from civilization to draw my attention. The oval was looked over by the school. Not that anyone would be there now.

I walked though the gate in the fence that surrounded the oval. I was surprised to see Lucas sitting on one of the bench's at the run tracks edge. He was looking at her top of the trees were the sky was changing as the sun lit up the sky in bright colors. He wasn't doing anything, just sitting there. The thought about running deserted me then. I sat down next to Lucas, careful to leave some space between us.